Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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